Category: ALEXANDRIA
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Searching for Life Quality? Cairo, Alexandria Just Made It to Africa’s Top 10 Cities
Surveying 100 capitals and major urban centres in Africa, the research body Communaute d’Etudes pour l’Amenagement du Territoire at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) looked at seven categories: society, housing, spatial development, infrastructure, environment, governance and economy. “I wish this was true, but it’s difficult to understand how Cairo that has been, for example,…
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Mostafa el-Abbadi, Champion of Alexandria’s Resurrected Library, Dies at 88
His daughter, Dr. Mohga el-Abbadi, said the cause was heart failure. Professor Abbadi’s dream of a new library — a modern version of the magnificent center of learning of ancient times — could be traced to 1972, when, as a scholar at the University of Alexandria, he concluded a lecture with an impassioned challenge. “At…
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Alexandria: locals adapt to floods as coastal waters inch closer
Gaber has managed the Latino cafe in Alexandria for six years, during which time the business has had to adapt to increasingly dramatic winter storms. With the storms come the floods, crashing waves engulfing large chunks of the many cafes nestled on the coastline. “There was another wall here before the flooding, but the steel…
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Alexandria studies importing 15 new trams to join its tramway network
The authority has finalized the technical terms of the project, but still studying four offers from Ukraine, Italy, China and Belarus, Elewa told Youm7. Began operating in 1863, the tramway network in Alexandria consists of 20 lines and serves 140 stops. The price of single tram ride differs according to the carriage used, and it…